North Korean satellite 'stable' in orbit after launch, US official confirmsFoxnews.com

The satellite that North Korea launched into orbit Sunday is now "stable" in orbit, a U.S. official told Fox News on Tuesday.

Earlier reports had claimed the satellite was "tumbling" in orbit, which would have rendered it useless. A U.S. official told ABC News the same technology used to get the payload into orbit is the same needed to launch a nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile at the U.S.

US, China agree on UN sanctions against North Korea over missile testFoxnews.com

The U.S. and China have agreed to a draft resolution increasing U.N. sanctions against North Korea as punishment for the Communist country's latest nuclear test and rocket launch.

Security Council diplomats told Fox News late Wednesday that draft resolution had been circulated to all 15 members of the council for their consideration. A senior Western diplomat told Fox News that a vote on the resolution could take place by this weekend.

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea fired several short-range projectiles into the sea off its east coast Thursday, Seoul officials said, just hours after the U.N. Security Council approved the toughest sanctions on Pyongyang in two decades for its recent nuclear test and long-range rocket launch.

The North's launches also come shortly after Seoul's parliament passed its first legislation on human rights in North Korea.

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea on Monday issued its latest belligerent threat, warning of an indiscriminate "pre-emptive nuclear strike of justice" on Washington and Seoul, this time in reaction to the start of huge U.S.-South Korean military drills.

Such threats have been a staple of young North Korean leader Kim Jong Un since he took power after his dictator father's death in December 2011. But they spike especially when Washington and Seoul stage what they call annual defensive springtime war games. Pyongyang says the drills, which were set to start Monday and run through the end of April, are invasion rehearsals.

North Korea fires missiles into the sea in response to South Korea sanctionsAP

North Korea responded to South Korean unilateral sanctions Thursday by firing short-range ballistic missiles into the sea in a show of defiance and vowing to "liquidate" all remaining South Korean assets at former cooperative projects in the North.

The moves are the latest in an escalating standoff between the Koreas that began in January when North Korea detonated what it said was an "H-bomb of justice," its fourth nuclear test. Since then, Pyongyang has launched a long-range rocket; Seoul has shut down the last remaining cooperative project between the rivals, a jointly run factory park in the North Korean border town of Kaesong, and slapped sanctions on the North over its recent nuclear test and rocket launch; the U.N. has imposed sanctions; and the North has threatened nuclear strikes on Seoul and the U.S. mainland.

North Korea claims it could 'burn down' Manhattan with a hydrogen bombnews.com.au

Another day, another veiled threat from North Korea. Unlike most, this one was very specific.

State-run television in the People’s Republic reported on Sunday that Pyongyang’s arsenal of deadly weapons now includes a hydrogen bomb that could wipe out New York City and kill everybody who lives there.

“Our hydrogen bomb is much bigger than the one developed by the Soviet Union,” DPRK Today reported, citing nuclear scientist Cho Hyong Il.

“If this H-bomb were to be mounted on an intercontinental ballistic missile and fall on Manhattan in New York City, all the people there would be killed immediately and the city would burn down to ashes.”

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama levied sanctions against North Korea on Wednesday in response to the reclusive country's recent "illicit" nuclear and ballistic missile tests.

The sanctions blocks certain transactions on property belonging to the North Korean government and to the Workers' Party of Korea. They follow the U.N. Security Council's unanimous adoption this month of some of the toughest sanctions in decades against North Korea for defying the world by pushing ahead with its nuclear program. Obama enacted separate U.S. sanctions last month.

An executive order signed by Obama and effective Wednesday merges both sets of sanctions, enabling the U.S. government to implement them.